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Campus & Community

Wind Chill Warning Issued, Bitterly Cold Temperatures Forecasted

Wednesday, January 30, 2019, By News Staff

Syracuse University is currently monitoring and assessing weather conditions for Wednesday, Jan. 30, and Thursday, Jan. 31. This effort includes reviewing the most up-to-date National Weather Service data and forecasting, and consulting with an independent meteorologist. At this time, a…

Campus & Community

Syracuse Architecture Announces Spring 2019 Visiting Critics

Tuesday, January 22, 2019, By Julie Sharkey

Each semester, upper-level architecture students participate in the visiting critic program that brings leading architects and scholars from around the world to the school. Four studios will be held this spring. James Leng (Boghosian Fellow 2018–2019) Leng will teach the…

Campus & Community

From LA to Syracuse: Audio Engineer Brings Many Years of Experience—and Many Miles of It—to the Newhouse School

Tuesday, January 22, 2019, By News Staff

Staff Spotlight shines a light on many of Syracuse University’s most dedicated—and talented—members. Their work on campus. Their often very interesting lives away from campus. It is our pleasure to share their stories. The approach to each profile is different,…

Campus & Community

Wind Chill Warning Issued, Extremely Cold Temperatures Expected

Monday, January 21, 2019, By News Staff

The City of Syracuse is currently under a Wind Chill Warning, which is expected to remain in effect until 7 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 21. The latest information from the National Weather Service indicates that wind chills could get as…

STEM

Growing the Science of Sustainability: Molecular Biologist Nina V. Fedoroff ’66 Expounds on Importance of GMOs, Science Literacy

Wednesday, December 19, 2018, By Rob Enslin

Nina V. Fedoroff ’66 has built a career on defying the odds. From working her way through college as a single mother to being the first to clone and characterize maize transposons (bits of DNA that hop from place to…

Arts & Culture

SU Special Collections and Department of Art and Music Histories Host Visiting Fulbright Scholar Ingeborg Zechner

Friday, November 30, 2018, By Renée Gearhart Levy

As an intern at an Austrian music festival, musicologist Ingeborg Zechner was asked to write a program description about one of the pieces played, the Carmen Fantasie. The well-known violin piece was penned by Franz Waxman, a composer best known…

Business & Economy

Invent@SU Students Turn Mouth Cleaning Device Into a $5 Million Business

Thursday, November 29, 2018, By Alex Dunbar

For hundreds of years, the fundamental mechanism of cleaning your teeth through physical brushing has not changed very much—just variations of toothbrushes with bristles. Tairan Li and Chao Huang, industrial and interaction design majors in the College of Visual and…

Arts & Culture

Syracuse Symposium Mines Stories of Loss, Transformation

Wednesday, October 31, 2018, By Rob Enslin

Syracuse Symposium, presented by the Humanities Center in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S), continues its yearlong look at “Stories” with a rich array of November events. They include a mini-residency by photographer Keisha Scarville (Nov. 1-2), a concert…

Arts & Culture

Five Films that Laid the Foundation for the Horror Film

Friday, October 26, 2018, By News Staff

The term “horror film” first appeared in public usage in 1931 after the release of Tod Browning’s “Dracula.” But that doesn’t mean monsters and mayhem were not regularly seen on the silver screen during the silent era. Kendall Phillips, professor…

Campus & Community

‘River Blue’ Film Oct. 16 Examines Fashion Industry Pollution of Rivers

Thursday, October 11, 2018, By News Staff

Sustainability Management and student group Students of Sustainability are sponsoring a free screening of the eye-opening documentary “River Blue” on Tuesday, Oct. 16, at 7 p.m. in Watson Theater. The event is free and open to the public, with entry…